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they did in Wales, building hermitages and founding churches ; 

 and though these have been swept away by the hand of time, and 

 other structures have taken their place, dedicated to ''orthodox" 

 saints, yet the names of parishes still preserve the names of these 

 original founders. 



In conclusion, I beg to solicit co-operation from all interested in 

 this kind of study. All Cornishmen may help by supplying omitted 

 names and correcting mis -Jits; i. e., where from want of local 

 information I have given a meaning to a name which, though 

 apparently justified by the sources to which it is referred, is not 

 justified by the peculiarities of the place ; while the general 

 philologist may render important assistance by detecting in some 

 of the names, as to the meaning of which I have ventured to make 



a guess," traces of some other languages which may have found 

 their way into this extreme corner of Britain. I have given a good 

 many pure Saxon names, and have been blamed for doing so in a 

 professedly ''Cornish Glossary;" but many such names are found 

 in all parts of Cornwall, especially in the east ; and it is possible 

 that a Turanian scholar may find, more particularly in the lists of 

 unexplained names given with each part of the Glossary, proofs of 

 a Turanian element. 



ui. Taper will he read on the 10th February, on 



RECENT APPLICATIOlSrS OF THE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS. 

 By Mr. E. Bishop. 



PROGRAMME. 



Sketch of the history of discovery of the properties of the solar 

 spectrum — Spectra of various bodies : solid, liquid, and gaseous — 

 Construction of the spectroscope, and method of using it — Appli- 

 cation to chemical research — The dark lines of the solar spectrum 

 explained — Discovery of their nature by Kirchoff, and their appli- 

 cation to solar and stellar chemistry — Evidence of motion in the 

 "fixed" stars aff'orded by the spectroscope — Spectra of comets and 

 nebulae — Conclusion. 



